Interconvertible bed or couch.



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Patented May 27, I902.

INTERCONVEBTIBLE BED 0R COUCH.

(Application filed Jan. 23, 1900.)

(No Model.)

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INTEBOONVEBTIBLE BED 0B DOUGH.

(Application filed JUL 23, 1900. (No Model.) 2 Sheets8haet 2.

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DAVID C. STORR, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

INTERCONVERTIBLE BED OR COUCH.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 700,852,'dated May 27, 1902.

Application filed January 23,1900. Serial No. 2,460. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern:

Be itknownthat I, DAVID C. STORR, of New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Interconvertible Beds or Couches, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has relation to intercouvertible beds and couches of the character of that shown in the patent to Leighton, No. 584,375, dated June 15, 1897. The bed therein shown is provided with swinging side wings or side frames adapted to be thrown into horizontal position by lazy-tongs connected to and actuated by a single foot-lever; but while this is a desirable arrangement for many purposes at the same time it is undesirable in cases where it is necessary to permit one of the side frames to hang in a vertical position and to elevate the other to horizontal position. Consequently the object of this present invention is to provide independent devices or foot-levers for the two side wingsor side frames, respectively, whereby said frames may be raised to horizontal position independently of each other.

To these ends the invention consists of. an interconvertible couch-bed having certain features of construction and relative arrangement of parts, as indicated upon the accompanying drawings, described in the following specification, and pointed out in the claims hereto appended.

Referring to the said drawings, Figure 1 represents in plan view an interconvertible couch-bed embodying my invention, one of the side frames being shown as lifted into horizontal position and the other being shown as dropped to vertical position. Fig. 2 represents an end elevation of the same. Fig. 3 represents a side elevation of the end portion of the bed with the side frames raised. Figs. 4 and 5 illustrate the hangers for the longitudinal bars of the bed. couch-bed in perspective view. Fig. 7 shows a longitudinal section through the end of the bed. Fig. 8 shows the end bars of the frame.

Fig. 9 represents the manner of securing the end bars to the standard.

Referring to the drawings, the end standards are indicated at a b, and between them is placed the main frame, which consists of Fig. 6 represents the longitudinal'tubular side bars connected by angle end bars; The angle end bars are in dicated at d, and their vertical webs are attached to the standards by bolts d, passed through bosses 01 therein. (See Fig. 9.) The tubular side bars are supported by hangers e, which are secured in place by the bolts 01 to the inner faces of the vertical webs of the said bars d, said side bars projecting into cylindrical sockets e in said hangers. ends of the end bars are attached by means of rule-joints the angular end bars ff of the swinging side frames, said rule-joints being indicated at f and limiting the upward movement of the said side frames. At the outer free ends of the end bars f f are depending hangers g g for the tubular side bars h h of the side frames. To the horizontal webs of the angular end bars 01 and f areattached the ends of a suitable wire mattress i, which may be of any desired kind or style. The tubular side bars of the main and side frames are disposed in a plane considerably below that of the mattress, the side bars of the main .framerbeing lower than those of the side frame and being bent downward between their ends to prevent the possibility of a person sitting or lyingupon the bed coming into contact with or resting upon said bars. The side frames may remain in either of two posit-ions, as shown upon the drawingsthat is to say, they may hang vertically or they may be raised to and maintained in horizontal positioniindependently of each other. The mechanism for raising and supporting said side frames comprises depressible foot devices, levers between said foot devicesand the said frames, and latches for engaging said lever devices when the frames are raised to horizontal position. The standards are provided with'central portions a b, braced by horizontal portions (r 12 projecting inward from the arched outer portions or legs a b The central portion a is form ed with two vertical slots a a to receive two independent depressible ,foot devices, which in this embodimentof-the invention consist of foot-levers j j, projecting through said slots toward the middle of the bedand pivoted at their inner ends upon a stud j, passed through braces or cross-barsj secured to the side bars a c. The outer ends of said lovers are flattened to provide bearing-sur= To the faces for the foot of a person, and the side frames are so connected to said levers that when the latter are depressed the side frames are elevated, and vice versa.

The lever mechanism connecting the foot devices and the side frames in the present embodiment of the invention comprise compound levers or lazy-tongs, (indicated at 70.) Said lazy-tongs are pivoted to the outer ends of the angle-bars at the ends of the bed and also upon studs 70, projecting inwardly from the end standards a b. One member of each of the lazy-tongs is extended, as at k, to be engaged by the latches or locking devices m 02. Each of the said locking devices is pivoted upon studs projecting laterally from the middle portions of the end standards and is yoke-shaped to provide a single locking projection m or n for each of the lever extensions W. The latch m has a handle m with a pull m and it is connected by a rod or wire 0 with the latch 01, said wire being connected to the standard?) by one or more coiled tension-springs 0. By this construction it will be seen that either one of the side frames may be raised to horizontal position, whereupon the levers 70 will engage the locking projections on the latches. Then by drawing upon the handle "m the latches will be pulled into inoperative position and the said side frames will dropinto vertical position. Any other form of lever mechanism may be substituted for the lazy-tongs for accomplishing the same purpose.

The levers k 70 adjacent the standard a are connected by rods or links 19 with the depressible foot devices by pins 19, arranged longitudinally'of the levers 7' and passing through lugs piprojecting laterally from and journaled in said levers. The depression of the foot-levers causes the elevation of the side frames, as previously described, said levers being independent of each other,whereby said frames are also raised independently.

Having thus explained the nature of the invention and described a Way of constructing and using the same, although without attempting to set forth all of the forms in which it may be made or all of the modes of its use, I declare that What I claim is- 1. An inter-convertible bed or couch, comprising a main frame, side frames, an independent depressible foot device for each. side frame, and independent connections between said foot devices and said side frames, whereby each side frame may be elevated independently of the other, the said independent foot devices being adjacent to each other and movable in parallel planes, whereby they may be simultaneously operated when desired.

2. An interconvertible bed or couch, comprising end standards, a main frame, side frames adapted to be raised to horizontal position, lever mechanism for operating said side frames and an independent foot device for actuating the lever mechanism of each of the side frames, said foot devices being projected through parallel slots in one of the said end I standards, and being arranged whereby they maybe engaged simultaneously by the foot.

In testimony whereofI have aflixed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

DAVID C. sToRR.

Witnesses: 1

HARRY DAVIDSON, CHAS. PERKS. 

